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Re: location of the configuration files

Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>

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From: Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>, "J. M. Brenner" <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-02-14T06:18:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 22:53, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > What your comments strongly suggest to me is that projects like
> > PostgreSQL and pine, along with everything else, should comply with FHS;
> > then there will be no confusion because everyone will be following the
> > smae standards.  Messes arise when people ignore standards; we have all
> > seen the dreadful examples of MySQL and the Beast, haven't we?
> 
> Can the FHS handle installing PostgreSQL as non-root?

Certainly.  It is only necessary to set permissions correctly in
/etc/postgresql and /var/run/postgresql.

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